Yellow Pages United Goes Green

Each year, nearly three quarters of a million tons of phone books go out to more than a million households across the U.S. Of those, just a little more than 100,000 are recycled, leaving an enormous amount of waste sent off to landfills. It’s estimated that, per ton, the cost of recycling phone books is $50 to $75 while disposal in landfills costs between $75 and $100. That translates to around $55 million spent every year getting rid of outdated or unwanted phone books.

Such massive amounts of waste have more than a high price in terms of money — they also cost natural resources, from trees and water to clean air. Producing 650,000 tons of paper also produces nearly 1.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions and requires more than 44 billion liters of water. With the environmental and financial impact that printing, distributing, recycling and disposing of directories has, Yellow Pages United’s decision to stop directory production is one way we can help promote the responsible use of all of our natural resources.

A new way to advertise your business

With more customers than ever searching for businesses online, Yellow Pages United is moving its focus to advertising efforts on Bizyellow.com, a dynamic new business webpage directory that allows businesses to have more presence where their customers are today. Learn more about the advantages of having your business listed on Bizyellow.com, including how pages are optimized to help local customers find your business.

Yellow Pages United customers have already received a notice in their invoice announcing this change. We are excited about the future in the Yellow Pages industry and now we will be focusing our efforts on providing more value with our online suite of products.

If you have any questions or would like to know more about what Bizyellow.com can do for your business, please contact one of our customer service representatives at 1-866-355-6101.

Yellow Pages United is an independent online national directory publisher. Yellow Pages United is not affiliated with any other Yellow Pages company that might be mentioned in this article and is not affiliated with AT&T or your local directory publisher.

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